Just wondering about how they work for you. We currently use LP baseboard heating. Which is fine, until we get our Bill and find that it’s gone up in price per gallon with no notice. Any info you’re willing to give would be so helpful. Thanks! And stay warm!

It looks like any change to renewable heating would be expensive. Adding geothermal (and adding air ducts) looks to be about 30K or so for a mid-size house. Any other renewable heat options and appropriate costs? Thanks in advance. ps My current gas boiler is functional but really old and I don’t have any air ducts.

We have a MESYS pellet boiler heating our home and domestic water. It’s been pretty rock-solid over the years we’ve had it but there are no repair shops in the area so I’m left to solving problems on my own (the company that installed it has switched to wood pellet sales only.) Is anyone aware of a community of owners interested in sharing solutions with one another? The boiler is made by Ökofen (Austrian, I believe).

With the state offering big rebates and reasonable financing for pellet boilers, and the anti-poor-people tank inspection regime pushed for by the heating-oil companies making me hate buying oil more even than I already do, I've been looking into pellet boilers.

What are people's experiences with them? My (likely naive) spreadsheet indicates going with pellets would be cheaper (perhaps significantly) even 5 years out; does that sound reasonable? How much work is it to clean the ashes, and maintain a hopper?

So I have been thinking of getting a pellet boiler and came across these rebates. Of course I cant seem to find any prices on any of the approved models and was wondering if anyone on here has used this program or has a clue to the cost of any of these units. I can't even seem to find a ballpark range. Even Pellergy a VT company doesn't list prices.

Hi

I recently moved to a house that has a modern pellet boiler for heating the water/house. I’m a bit of a maintenance freak and I’m very diligent with the regular cleaning. I recently did a cleaning that I’m supposed to do twice a year; however, since then the exhaust has been hotter than usual, hovering between 190° and 210°C(374-410°F),and the ash has been black and more coarse instead of grey and powdery. The temperature is within limits (auto shutoff is 300°C/572°F) but it’s usually lower and only gets that high when it needs to be cleaned. Research has led me to believe it’s an air problem causing incomplete combustion, but after investigation I’m not sure anything I did could have brought on this issue.

Here is the manual if you become interested enough. CTC EcoFlex https://docdro.id/bM8hAqL

I’m not sure if pellet stones are allowed on this subreddit, though I have seen a few posts.

Because of an abundance of wood logs, I'd like to replace my old pellet boiler with a dual fuel one. All the ones I find need a large water volume. I only have one of 800l. I don't have the storage for those measurements.

I've no boiler presently, house is all electric, there is no natural gas nearby.

We're undertaking a remodel that will make running hydronic loops to about 60% of the house readily possible.

I'm looking at wood pellet boilers, everyone selling them says they're great.

What's the experience here?

We're in New England, it gets cold.

A few pictures of the set up can be found here. Essentially it is a 32kw boiler that burns wood pellets, it has an internal 60kg hopper. It fills this hopper at a set time everyday from an external 300kg hopper in the garage, this is done through a suction pipe system. Pellets are delivered on pallets either in 10kg bags or in 300kg 'dumpy' bags. Ash needs emptying every 1800kg of fuel burnt which is done by removing a small but pretty heavy box.

When looking around before it was fitted I couldn't find much information about them so I though it might be helpful to answer any questions anyone might have about what it is like living with one.

Hiya! considering a Pellet bioler and wanted to gage some feedback of people who have gone through the process..Pitfalls, Brands, incentives, types of pellets, any guidance or feedback, etc. Currently, I have an aging oil boiler that I would have as a secondary or just replace it out. I have forced hot air now, and it would be an easy install from what everyone tells me. Appreciate the feedback!

Hello!

I am a structural engineering student and right now working on two boilerhouse projects. Since my knowledge of heating and ventilation is lacking, I need your help.

1. Metal Fach SEG BIO 75kW pellet boiler. I can't find how much air it needs for combustion and so I don't know how many l/s of ventilation is required.

2. Radijator TKAN 200 200kW pellet boiler. Same question.

I hope someone knows a thing or two about pellet boilers and providing them with proper ventilation.

Thanks in advance!

So, I am trying to do some preliminary research on pellet boilers to replace my aging SunRay IV that is original to the house. I am most interested in the ÖkoFEN and the Kedel boilers. Does anyone here have any experience with these or any other pellet boilers? I know I want a big hopper and also a water heater so I don't have to have my boiler running in the summer. It would be nice to be green and off of oil, but I am mostly considering this for the cost savings over the life of the boiler.

There seems to be a new company out of Portland supporting the Kedel and a Maine Energy Systems has been supporting the ÖkoFEN.

Here are some links for reference:

http://kedelboilers.com/

http://www.revisionheat.com/renewable-heating-products/convert-to-wood-pellet-boiler-heat/wood-pellet-boilers/automated-pellet-boilers/

http://www.maineenergysystems.com/OkoFEN_AutoPellet_Boilers.htm

The two of us have a 1695 house, enlarged in 1721, 1750, and then around 1910. It's about 4500 sq ft. with oil/radiator heat. The whole house was moved to a new location in 2000 with a new basement and utilities.

We have 5 heating zones which we keep at 55 degrees to prevent freezing pipes. We've adapted to that temperature in the winter by dressing warmly and using space heaters where needed. This winter we're feeling the pain of the high cost of heating oil.

We have a massive fireplace in a central room that, once going, heats up the whole big chimney stack and even the second floor surprisingly well, but this takes many hours of commitment, careful tending, and at least one of us always being here, which isn't always possible. We have an OK firewood supply, but it's just the attention and the tending-to ... horrified of a potential fire disaster.

I'm very grateful for this big (restored & safe) fireplace - especially during power outages - but, thinking about what heating this household was like hundreds of years ago, I realize servants and extended family members were pretty essential.

Hey there! Broke and need advice.

My oil furnace backfired yesterday afternoon sufficiently to shake the house. Didn’t shut down but that was a boom!

I called the oil guys and they charge $240 an hour to come out which I can’t afford.

My CO2 meter never went off. Vent pipe is firmly in place and the house is still standing. I know I need to get this looked at but is this the kind of thing a plumber can check out? Do I have alternatives to $240/hr?

Thanks for any and all advice. Because I’m clueless and would rather not die in my sleep or blow to bits.

Hi everyone!

My wife and I are looking to install a wood stove as a secondary heat source. We are trying to heat a 1200sqft area, fairly open concept. We are trying to determine size/material we need. We’re both shift workers and work 12 hours shifts, so we can be gone for 13-14 hours at a time. We have a primary heating source, so the house won’t freeze if the stove dips low, but we’d love to have a relatively low maintenance stove if possible. Also, any tips and tricks that you wish you knew as a newbie would be greatly appreciated!

Edit: we currently operate on an outdoor pellet boiler with in-floor radiant heat. It keeps the house around 16-17*C but that’s the max we can get out of it. The wood stove is for comfort and to supplement the heat source we already have! We live in Northern Ontario and -40C is not uncommon, high heating cost is an unfortunate truth for us no matter what, just trying to be comfortable while we empty our pockets.

1950s home with hot water base boards heating -boiler at end of life. No ventilation ductwork in the house. No gas on the street. 🙄 I’m in New England so it gets cold. Too cold for geothermal?

What is up Depthians!

Another round of bug fixing, tweaks, and some additional features.

We shall explain any functions/features etc fully in the stable release, however, please feel free to ask about anything in the notes that you feel needs explaining.

We would also like to point out that we updated to unity 2020.3.22 and therefore the FTD boot-up process now begins in the launcher, and is more multi-threaded and concurrent, so it should take less time to boot the game up.FTD now uses Steam Multiplayer and the Data Relay Network. The old networking system is no longer available. Joining friends is much easier now and NAT punch through and port opening should no longer be necessary. We have fixed a number of multiplayer issues, there may be still some left so as always feel free to poke us with them on our bug tracker page https://brilliantskies.customercase.com/forums/bug-tracker

Changelog

Additions

Armor refit

• New buttons in armor refit tool: refit 100 and refit 500 blocks

campaign

• You can now trigger a diplomacy meeting if you have no enemies (or your enemies are dead)

CRAM

• Added idle elevation option in the CRAM settings UI
• New option in the fusing box: hollow-point tip conversion. Switches kinetic to impact damage, at the conversion rate used in APS

Multiplayer

• It is now possible to join lobbies through the Steam friends list if you are in the main menu
• Joining a lobby through the Steam friends list without the game running will start up the game and join the lobby if possible

Planets

• You can now include a zip file of imagery with your planet when you upload it to the steam workshop. If your planet is called Mine.planet then make a zip file called Mine.zip and put into it files with names such as #mytag.jpg and #anothertag.png. You can use these hashtags for the diplomacy portraits.

Targeting

• New slider for target prioritization card: bonus priority multiplier for the current target

Changes

Adventure

• Adventure mode now allows 3rd person camera as per other modes

APS

• AP modifier for soft heads up from 0.8 to 1
• AP modifier for soft parts except flak up from 0.1 to 0.8
• HE, frag, and EMP damage up by 10%. Also affects HEAT and HESH. Flak damage up by ~5%
• Health modifier for soft heads up from 0.5 to 0.9
• HP head switched from 1 AP and 1.2 kinetic modifiers to 1.2 AP and 1 kinetic
• Penetration depth fuse speed mo

Hi all - first winter ahead with a Castle Serenity pellet stove, which I was told during the home buying process was used as the sole heat source for my 1100 sq ft home. There's also baseboard heating run on a propane-powered boiler, but the boiler is currently turned off so it's not exactly an easy back-up source (I probably need to rethink that, but that's a question for a different day).

For now, I'm wondering if anyone else uses a pellet stove as their sole heat source, and if so, what do you do to freeze-proof your home when you leave for several days during the winter? I'm trying to decide if I can keep it on with the thermostat on the stove set at something like 55 degrees, and enlist a neighbor to come by to check on it and fill the hopper every couple days? I can also get some RV antifreeze to put into my U-traps for extra precaution.

Or is it really just not feasible to leave a home for several days with a pellet stove as the sole heat? Trying to figure out if I need to bite the bullet and turn the boiler back on so that when I leave and I can just shut down the pellet stove and use the boiler to keep the pipes from freezing.

Do your worst!

Preface:

This will be a long guide, so lets get some things out of the way:

• This is a guide to Seablock. The mod can be found on the mod page here, a 'pack' mod can be found here. For the best experience it is highly recommended to download it directly as a zip pack with all the correct mods from the homepage here.
• The basis of Seablock is a modified Bob & Angel pack, so expect around 10x the amount of items, recipes, and buildings as you would in base Factorio. The key difference between a regular B&A playthough and Seablock being that there are no ore patches and even land itself is at a premium - you start on a single block of land that you must expand. Nearly everything comes from water, and that includes the ores. On the positive note, there is very little interaction with biters, exclusively in the form of worms that you must snipe from afar and no actual nests. This make the game more like peaceful mode, where the only worry you have is to expand the factory.
• Any talk of tiers will most often be about recipe tiers, not building tiers. For example T1 and T2 green algae is for algae from water recipe and algae from mineralized water and carbon dioxide recipe; NOT! about T1 algae farm building and T2 algae farm building.
• I will specifically not be giving any blueprints or actual in-game screenshots so as to allow for a more interesting game. What I will be providing is a general flow through the technology tree that I recommend, along with some recipe charts that you can use as a basis for your builds.
• The images were getting a bit big, so I downscaled them so as to keep reddit from crashing (too much). To get the full images plus the original graph file go here. You can either have them as an image collection to use as a guide during play, or open up the graph and edit the flow values so as to better design your factory. The graph was made in Foreman 2.0 (which is what I spent the last 2 months working on instead of doing a seablock run as I originally planned). The app is still in its development phase, so there may (and are) be bugs in it (not of the biter variety - I removed those quite early on).

First steps

Managing to crash-land on a single block o

It really does, I swear!

For context I'm a Refuse Driver (Garbage man) & today I was on food waste. After I'd tipped I was checking the wagon for any defects when I spotted a lone pea balanced on the lifts.

I said "hey look, an escaPEA"

No one near me but it didn't half make me laugh for a good hour or so!

Edit: I can't believe how much this has blown up. Thank you everyone I've had a blast reading through the replies 😂

I finally convinced my parents to start investing, by putting money in one of their most importent topics: climate change. With everybody (4 folks) distributing the same amount each month, the risk is reduced and the upside is increased.

We are betting that the clean energy sector will see strong support in the coming years and plan to (at least partially) finance with the hopefully good returns on those investments our own houses installation of solar roof/panels and pellet boiler.

Im aware of ICLN and own myself already a bit, but I think im willing to bet my families money on individual companies like Enphase, SolarEdge or also some chinese manufactures.

Any recommendations?

They’re on standbi

Buenosdillas

Pilot on me!!

Dad jokes are supposed to be jokes you can tell a kid and they will understand it and find it funny.

This sub is mostly just NSFW puns now.

If it needs a NSFW tag it's not a dad joke. There should just be a NSFW puns subreddit for that.

Edit* I'm not replying any longer and turning off notifications but to all those that say "no one cares", there sure are a lot of you arguing about it. Maybe I'm wrong but you people don't need to be rude about it. If you really don't care, don't comment.